The Disconnection of the Large Hadron Collider Has Begun
CERN Director-General, Mark Thomson, visited the LHC tunnel to mark the start of the dismantling of the accelerator…
Evolution of Electron Spin Resonance through a Metallic Quantum Critical Phase Diagram
In the heavy-fermion metal YbRh2Si2, quantum criticality at a suppressed antiferromagnetic order is governed by the interplay of…
Sebastian Hassinger (The New Quantum Era): why neutral atoms lead the qubit race for now
Yuval Boger interviews Sebastian Hassinger, host of The New Quantum Era podcast, and author of a new book…
Quantum computer simulates matter “popping into existence”
Researchers led by the Duke Quantum Center (DQC) have used a quantum simulator to observe string breaking dynamics…
Distant time crystals can somehow fall into the same rhythm
Physicists at TU Dortmund University showed in January 2024 that a continuous time crystal could persist inside a…
A photon crossed 2 billion light-years to reach Earth when physics says it shouldn’t
The highest-energy photon ever seen from a cosmic blast should have been absorbed en route, and quantum gravity…
18-detector system hunts elusive neutrinos from nuclear reactor
MIT researchers working on an international neutrino experiment have expanded its detector setup from two devices to 18…
Scientists Hunt for Tiny Black Holes Hidden in LHC Collisions
Physicists found no tiny black holes at the LHC, but they just made the hiding place for new…
Cyril Hilsum, former GEC research boss and Institute of Physics president, dies aged 101 – Physics World
Cyril Hilsum, former GEC research boss and Institute of Physics president, dies aged 101 – Physics World Skip…
US firm hits 30 entangled logical qubits on its Sqale quantum computer
A Colorado-based company has announced a major milestone in quantum computing. Infleqtion’s Sqale quantum computer has demonstrated 30…
CERN has begun disconnecting the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) stretches 27 km around and relies on thousands of magnets of different types…
Quantum computing’s “dark horse” just proved it can go universal
A practical quantum computer must eventually be able to handle any type of quantum algorithm, much like a…